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The Market is revered. I’m talking about The Market, with a capital T and capital M. It can’t be beaten so don’t try. It can’t be forecasted or predicted. It cannot be tamed. Am I talking about The Market for stocks? The Market for bonds? For houses, tulips, interest rates? Yes. All of the above. The Read more about The Market is Not on Your Side[…]

The most interesting thing I saw SuperBowl weekend had nothing to do with football. It was something I saw while my son was playing Fortnite with two of his friends. Saturday afternoon the game hosted a live, in-game virtual concert by famous DJ Marshmello. According to at least one report, there were over 10 million Read more about Fortnite has Shown Us the Future[…]

The 5 Best Books I Read in 2018 While I did not read quite as many books as I would have liked last year, (I never do), I did read some great ones. I started the year continuing a divergence into gilded age and 20’s American history. From there, I moved into brain science with Read more about The Five Best Books I Read in 2018[…]

Imagine you are sitting at a poker table in a Las Vegas Casino. It is a tournament that you have dreamed of playing in for years, and by some crazy stroke of luck you got in this year. All the great famous poker players from TV are here playing. You realize this is a once Read more about Folding Aces[…]

I fell in love with the stock market when I was in college. I became president of my university’s investment club and also decided to start investing the small amount of money I had personally. One stock I analyzed had a solid business with great numbers. Its dividend was high but well covered by earnings Read more about The Best Stock Trade I Ever Made[…]

“He was to finance what Shakespeare was to poetry and Michelangelo to art.” Financier and Statesman Russell Sage said these words of Cornelius Vanderbilt after the Commodore laid his enemies low with a brilliant double corner of Harlem and Hudson Rail stocks. The ploy not only made him a small fortune, but also control of Read more about Vanderbilt and the Greatest Corner Never Told[…]

When should you take social security benefits? It is one of the most common questions people ask me when they are getting ready to retire. There have been innumerable posts written about when you should take benefits. None of the ones I saw seemed very robust. So, I decided I needed to hit the Excel Read more about Most Men Should Take Social Security Benefits ASAP[…]

The Key to Winning is to Play the Right Game Imagine you decide, in an effort to improve your overall health and wellness, that it is time to start running. You go out on some training runs and then decide to join a local 5k. You run this first race in 30 minutes flat. How Read more about How to Win at Investing[…]

What’s Wrong with Warren Buffett? Its that time of year again when the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway releases his famous letter to shareholders. It always comes out to great fanfare, as most of the investment world holds him up on a pedestal. He is unique in that he is not only considered the greatest investor Read more about What’s Wrong With Warren Buffett?[…]

The 5 Best Books I Read in 2017 Last year was a great year for reading. Even if I fell short of my goal for number of books read, the quality of books was excellent and a few of them were pretty massive in length so I think it evens out. I am still working Read more about The Five Best Books I Read in 2017[…]

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The Kraken

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.